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OUT OF THE VAULT
Hotel clerk pummeled by petite pugilist
A woman who took offense at being
told to quiet down by the night clerk at
Pendleton’s Bowman Hotel in October
of 1911 didn’t need the help of a man to
get her forceful message across, much
to the clerk’s chagrin.
Louis King, the night clerk at the
Bowman Hotel, was sleeping on the
afternoon of October 9, 1911, as was
his wont before his shift at the hotel’s
front desk. At around 5 p.m., boister-
ous laughter from what he decided was
the room of Adele Pefferle woke him
from his slumber. King went to Peffer-
le’s room and gave her a tongue-lashing,
and requested that she be quieter. He
then came downstairs to the hotel lobby.
Pefferle, a former member of the
Boston Bloomers, ex-mascot of the
Pendleton hose team and an imitator
of men in many ways, took offense at
King’s accusation. She followed him
down to the lobby and denied she had
been making the noise that disturbed
him. An argument ensued, King repeat-
ing his accusations and Pefferle refus-
ing to back down. Finally King accused
Pefferle of being drunk.
And then the fisticuffs began.
Pefferle lashed out with her right fist,
knocking King’s glasses off but leav-
ing him more surprised than injured.
“Was I drunk?” the offended woman
demanded. When King declared she
indeed was, Pefferle hit him again. And
again. “You can’t say that to my face,”
the incensed woman cried, punctuat-
ing each repeat of her assertion with
another full-armed swing. By this time
her hat had come off and her hair was
askew, adding to her generally ferocious
appearance.
King did not fight back, gentlemanly
behavior restraining him, but he did
attempt to end the fight by grabbing her
arm. But Pefferle was no shrinking vio-
let, and King found that restraining her
was no easy task. Finally the day clerk
came to King’s assistance and the attack
was stopped.
Pefferle was asked to leave the hotel,
but she refused to budge. A visit from
Officer Kearney finally convinced her to
pack her bags and take Train No. 17 for
The Dalles that evening.
Pefferle, the daughter of a Spokane
dentist, was no stranger to Pendleton
— or to trouble. She had first arrived in
town from Baker City in 1897 at the age
of 15, and became the mascot of Pend-
leton’s famed hose racing team when
she punched a man who made a jeer-
ing remark about the team. Later she
joined the Boston Bloomers, a wom-
en’s touring baseball team that appeared
at Weston’s Pioneer Picnic in 1909.
After being run down by an ambulance
in Salt Lake City at the age of 21, the
scars she received ended her vaudeville
career, and she took to wearing men’s
clothing to find work. She was arrested
for vagrancy in 1910 in Portland while
masquerading as a man under the name
of Joe Howard. Her final stay in Pendle-
ton began with the 1911 Round-Up and
ended just days after she gave up a wait-
ressing job at the hotel that finally sent
her packing.
DEAR ABBY
Friend’s goth fashion would stand out at formal wedding
Dear Friend: If there will be
Dear Abby: A month and a
half ago, my boyfriend of five
a wedding party and you have a
years proposed. We are happy
maid of honor, the responsibility
and excited. Most of the wedding
of explaining the “dress code” to
party are my friends from col-
Eden should fall to her — for the
lege, who are like a family to me.
reasons you mentioned. Whether
They have also grown very close
Eden takes offense is anybody’s
to my fiance.
guess, but at least the message
Jeanne
One friend, “Eden,” defines
won’t come directly from you.
herself as a “goth.” She wears Phillips If she chooses to ignore the dress
Advice
dark lipstick, dark makeup and
code and “come as she is,” focus
usually wears all black — lace,
on your happiness and do not let
fishnets, etc. Her casual wear
it ruin your day. As for the pic-
isn’t all that out of place. However, when tures, put her in the back.
Dear Abby: We live in Las Vegas.
she dresses up, the goth comes out in full
force — parasol, thigh-high boots, over- Now and then family members in Europe
contact us to let us know their adult chil-
the-top stuff (at least to me).
She’s invited to our wedding, and I’m dren will be visiting Vegas and would like
concerned that she may go overboard to see us. We are retired and would enjoy
with her wardrobe for the event. I do not taking these “youngsters” out for break-
wish to stifle her style or sense of self, but fast or lunch on the Strip. But what usu-
the guests will be mostly family and it’s ally happens is, we wait and wait and
a formal event. Is there a polite way to receive no call until their departure, then
mention this to her and ask her to tone it hear all kinds of excuses about why they
down a bit? I don’t want to hurt her feel- couldn’t call earlier. This has happened
ings or appear to be stuck up, however I three times now, and our question to you
am sure she will be in many of the photos. is: What are we supposed to say when
— Polite Friend In Pennsylvania
they make their departure call? — Ready
To Welcome In Vegas
Dear Ready: It is telling that when
you receive the initial phone call, it comes
from the parents rather than the “kids.”
This is what you should say when the
“youngsters” call: “Oh, we’re so sorry
you couldn’t fit us into your busy sched-
ule, but we understand. Hope you enjoyed
your visit. Let us know when you’ll be
back in town. Bye!” Then forget about it!
Dear Abby: We have a storage unit
filled with furniture we can’t use. I want
to sell it or donate it to a charity — pro-
vided they come and pick it up.
My wife wants to give it to a handy-
man who has done work for us in the past.
My concern is that it might be insulting
and imply that he is poor and needs char-
ity. I don’t know that he is needy, but he
might well be. I just don’t want to insult
the guy. What do you think? — Just
Being Nice
Dear Nice: Offer the furniture to your
handyman, and when you do, tell him
you no longer need it and wonder if he
might know “someone” who can use it.
I don’t think that would be offensive or
imply that he is needy.
DAYS GONE BY
100 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 27-28, 1918
Lieutenant Kenneth Roper of
Pendleton, who died recently of
Spanish influenza and who was bur-
ied here yesterday with full military
honors, narrowly escaped death sev-
eral times during his career as a sailor.
He was on the Housotania when it
was attacked by a submarine, and was
also on board when his ship figured
in a collision. Lieutenant Roper had
another escape when a steamer caught
fire while he was aboard. It was
thought at one time that Roper was
a German prisoner, but later events
showed that his whereabouts were
being kept secret by the U.S. govern-
ment while he was making five over-
seas trips.
50 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 27-28, 1968
The Navy admitted Saturday that a
bomber from Whidbey Island, Wash.,
accidentally dropped five practice
bombs off target. The Navy said all the
bombs struck the ground about six miles
north of the intended target and out-
side the Boardman range. An investiga-
tion showed an A-6A twin-jet bomber
released its bombs later than sched-
uled. The bombs were water-filled with
smoke charges for location purposes.
Amos Shoemake, who has a home two
miles from Boardman, said Saturday one
bomb landed about 1,000 yards from his
home and 500 yards from a neighbor’s
home. He said the bomb, about two feet
long and eight inches in diameter, made a
crater eight feet wide and two feet deep.
25 Years Ago
From the East Oregonian
Oct. 27-28, 1993
A 13-year-old student who held his
teacher and classmates hostage Tuesday
told police he couldn’t take the tension of
“being perfect in school and in football.”
The seventh-grader carried a loaded hunt-
ing rifle into his first class at Armand Lar-
ive Junior High but was wrestled to the
floor moments later by his home room
teacher, Brian Johnson. School officials
said today the boy’s grades had been slip-
ping and that some staff members had
noticed he was troubled, but there was
no hint of what would happen. The boy
was taken into custody on 19 counts each
of attempted kidnapping, menacing and
unlawful use of a weapon. He was taken
to the Umatilla County juvenile detention
center in Pendleton.
ODDS & ENDS
Goodwill workers find original 1774 ‘rebel’ newspaper
BELLMAWR, N.J. (AP)
— A quick eye by Goodwill
workers in southern New Jer-
sey turned up framed pages
from an original 1774 Phil-
adelphia newspaper with an
iconic “Unite or Die” snake
design on the masthead.
The frayed Dec. 28, 1774,
edition of the “Pennsylva-
nia Journal and the Weekly
Advertiser” boasts three items
signed by John Hancock, then
president of the Provincial
Congress, who pleads for the
Colonies to fight back “ene-
mies” trying to divide them.
A jumble of small adver-
tisements offer rewards for a
lost horse or runaway appren-
tice, while another insists the
poster will no longer pay his
“misbehav(ing)” wife’s debts.
The discovery was first
reported by NJ Pen, an
online news site.
Bob Snyder of the New
York auction house Cohasco
says the “rebel” newspaper
shows how “everyone was
good and mad” at the British
just months before the Rev-
olutionary War began. The
masthead design is a variant
of the “Join, or Die” politi-
cal cartoon credited to Ben-
jamin Franklin.
“These were very import-
ant propaganda tools,” Sny-
der said of newspapers and
pamphlets of the era. “The
AP Photo/Matt Rourke
This photo shows a detail of a Dec. 28, 1774 Pennsylva-
nia Journal and the Weekly Advertiser at the Goodwill
Industries in Bellmawr, N.J.
viciousness then in some
was as much or more as it is
today ... (But) the language
was more powerful in put-
ting down the other side.”
Snyder estimates the news-
paper’s value at $6,000 to
$16,000. Goodwill Industries
hopes to sell it to help fund its
educational and job-training
services, according to Heather
Randall, e-commerce man-
ager of the regional operation
in Bellmawr, New Jersey.
The framed document was
dropped off in Woodbury,
New Jersey, and sent to her
department, which reviews
donations that may be valu-
able, and lists the best among
them on Shopgoodwill.com.
Employee Mike Storms did
the detective work, guessing it
was original given small key-
holes at the inside edge of the
pages that suggest they had
once been bound by string.
What’s more, the four pages
were preserved in an old frame
with glass on both sides.
“It’s like a big treasure
hunt, really, because you
never know what’s going to
come through. Sometimes, the
things take a lot of research,”
Randall said.
“We got a Bill of Rights
the other day, but it was
(printed by) the Phillip Morris
Tobacco Company,” she said
Thursday. “It looked good.”
There are three other exist-
ing copies of the same weekly
edition of the Pennsylvania
Journal, all housed in uni-
versity collections. Randall
hopes this one will find a
home in the Philadelphia area
where the public can see it.
She posted it for sale on the
Goodwill website for 15 days
earlier this year, but the listing
didn’t get widespread interest.
Snyder believes it should.
“It’s only three or four
months until the first actual
shots of the revolution were
fired. So by this time, every-
body was good and mad,”
said Snyder, who said news-
papers of the day were more
partisan than today, although
the level of debate was more
highbrow. The Pennsylva-
nia Journal was published by
William and Thomas Brad-
ford, who came from a dis-
tinguished local family of
booksellers and printers.
“They obviously had a
very strong belief system.
They were willing to risk
their lives to publish,” he said.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
On Oct. 27, 1978, Base in southwestern Japan
Egyptian President Anwar by shipmate Terry Helvey,
Sadat and Israeli Prime who pleaded guilty to mur-
Minister Menachem Begin der and was sentenced to
were named winners of the life in prison.
In 1998, Hurricane
Nobel Peace Prize for their
progress toward achieving Mitch cut through the
western Caribbean, pum-
a Middle East accord.
In 1787, the first of the meling coastal Hondu-
Federalist Papers, a series ras and Belize; the storm
of essays calling for rat- caused several thousand
ification of the United deaths in Central America
States Constitution, was in the days that followed.
In 2002, Luiz Inacio
published.
In 1795, the United Lula da Silva was elected
States and Spain signed president of Brazil in a
the Treaty of San Lorenzo runoff, becoming the coun-
(also known as “Pinck- try’s first elected leftist
ney’s Treaty”), which pro- leader.
vided for free navigation of
In 2004, the Boston Red
Sox won their first World
the Mississippi River.
In 1858, the 26th pres- Series since 1918, sweep-
ident of the United States, ing the St. Louis Cardinals
Theodore Roosevelt, was in Game 4, 3-0.
Today’s
Birthdays:
born in New York City.
John
In 1904, the first rapid Actor-comedian
transit subway, the IRT, Cleese is 79. Author Max-
was inaugurated in New ine Hong Kingston is 78.
Country singer Lee Green-
York City.
In 1938, Du Pont wood is 76. Producer-di-
announced a name for rector Ivan Reitman is
its new synthetic yarn: 72. Country singer-musi-
cian Jack Daniels is 69.
“nylon.”
In 1947, “You Bet Your Rock musician Garry Tal-
Life,” a comedy quiz show lent (Bruce Springsteen &
starring Groucho Marx, the E Street Band) is 69.
premiered on ABC Radio. Author Fran Lebowitz is
(It later became a televi- 68. Actor-director Roberto
sion show on NBC.)
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In 1954, U.S. Air Force Firth is 65. Actor Rob-
Col. Benjamin O. Davis Jr. ert Picardo is 65. Internet
was promoted to brigadier news editor Matt Drudge
general, the first black offi- is 52.
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the USAF. Walt Disney’s “He who seeks rest finds
first television program, boredom. He who seeks
titled “Disneyland” after work finds rest.” — Dylan
the yet-to-be completed Thomas (1914-1953).
theme park, premiered on
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